ocial bookmarking opens the door to new ways of organizing
information and categorizing resources. The creator of a book
mark
assigns
tags
to
each
resource,
resulting
in
a
user-directed,
“amateur”
method of classif ying information. Because social
bookmarking ser vices indicate who created each bookmark and
provide access to that person’s other bookmarked resources,
users can easily make social connections with other individuals
interested in just about any topic. Users can also see how many
people have used a tag and search for all resources that have
been assigned that tag. In this way, the community of users over
time will develop a unique structure of keywords to define resourc
es
—something
that has come to be known as a “folksonomy.”